Replies to post #88557 on Optec International Inc (OPTI)

[HotterMama]

Cell phone manufacturers most likely don't want to deal with a bunch of KAREN's running around taking other peoples temperatures and transmitting them to some database!

Oh, my, I have to COMPLETELY disagree:

In 2022, the number of smartphone users in the world is 6.648 billion.

In 2021 (the most recent data I could find), the number of new smartphones sold was approximately 1.5 million.

Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in June of 2016, or almost 6 years ago. (I'm using this acquisition as an example only to demonstrate the worth of a single user data point). At the time of the acquisition, LinkedIn had a membership count of over 400 million users. Going with this information, Microsoft paid $65 (26.2 billion divided by 400 million) for a single user data point at the time of the purchase almost SIX years ago.

Going with NEW PHONES ONLY (1.5 million) x $65 per user, that USER DATA is worth $97,500,000 (that’s ninety-seven million five hundred thousand dollars) or just shy of 1 BILLION DOLLARS.

Now let’s throw in EXISTING phones—another 6.5 BILLION (rounded down). I’m also assuming the OPTI patented temperature scanner app can be downloaded to EXISTING phones (OF COURSE it will be). Now, taking an ULTRA conservative number, say 10%, of EXISTING phones, or approximately 650 million, times the $65 price tag for a single user data point, gives you an ASTRONOMICAL number of over 42 BILLION dollars ($42,000,000,000).

I believe cell phone manufacturers would have absolutely NO PROBLEM selling the data those KAREN's are collecting for free to “some database” for that kind of money.

Yes, indeed; that's SOME database!!